This thread will be used to gather an accurate list of DAE drive features. Just post your drive(s) features in this thread & I will add them to my database.

The lists main purpose is to provide sample offsets for users who don't have one of EAC's key CD's & help people decide which is an optimal drive for use with EAC & which is a suitable drive for accurate results with CD Paranoia.

I will not add any incomplete records into the database so you must provide all the required fields.

I think it would be better is there was an app to detect and submitt these features. Maybe spoon would be willing to write one to go with AccurateRip?

Many of the items would be difficult to automatically detect:

Manufacturer: No problemType: No problemModel: No problemAccurate Stream: No problemCaching: This one is hit and miss to detect, C2 Error Info: The firmware could lie about it's implementation / implementation could be poor you would need a cd with intentional errorsOverread: You would need a specific audio cd with sound data (values not 0) right upto the lead in / out, some drives when trying to overread just return 0's, you wouldn't spot this unless you had a cd as mentioned.Sample Offset: No problemFirmware: Is this drive specific?

AccurateRip contained pretty much all the items that could be autodetected with any audio cd, it has the Sample Offset and Accurate Stream.

Accurate Stream: No problemCaching: This one is hit and miss to detect, C2 Error Info: The firmware could lie about it's implementation / implementation could be poor you would need a cd with intentional errors

i cannot comment on accurate stream, but "drive caches" can always be turned ON and "c2 error info" can always be turned OFF as a fail-safe fallback. all you get is a speed decrease with added safety.

especially c2 was unreliable with my liteon ltr-24103s. the drive reports c2 but repeatedly reripping a track would yield a different checksum each time. scary. so better be safe than sorry and keep those two options at their slow-but-reliable setting. my opinion.

edit: unless you mass-rip hundreds of cds where you need the speed. but i'd very carefully verify that the drive rips correctly. usually, the slightest sign of a checksum mismatch or similar makes me run screaming from ever using that option again. but that's just me :)